In which the crew of the Mintball spend some time under ground and the rest of the day slowly heading back down hill… again!! Surviving Stoke on Trent they make way towards Stone and the old Joule’s Brewery and one of the oldest canal hire fleets on the waterways.
Having spent most of the previous day heading down hill the crew of Mintball spend most of the day going back up hill again, and going up is a lot more effort than going down, even with more crew.
In which the crew of Mintball detail some of their pre-cast off activities such as getting essential supplies on board and finding some BEER, and then covers the first full day of cruising on their 9 day trip, which involved them spending most of the day heading down hill with the intention of culling a few beers at The Badger in the evening.
A quick summary of the planned trip of NB Mintball at the end of September 2013. We’ll be out and about enjoying ourselves and possibly collecting information for Canalplan
It was another non-descript day when we got up and headed off towards Audlem Bottom Lock No 27 and although we’d heard several boats move off from the moorings they all seemed to have been going north. So when we arrived at the bottom of Audlem there was only one boat in front of us.
From Stanthorne Lock No 3 to Coole Pilate Leisure Moorings, a distance of 16 miles, 3 flg and 5 locks. We heard a couple of boats go past us before we got up and we started the day third in the queue at the lock. We knew we were going to need some fuel and […]
From Marbury Woods Footbridge to Stanthorne Lock No 3, a distance of 16 miles, ½ flg and 5 locks. Or maybe its Groundhog day. That odd feeling that you’ve been here before, and that the day is one you’ve already lived through. Well that’s how it felt when I got up and we cast off. […]
From Jacksons Bridge No 7 to Marbury Woods Footbridge, a distance of 16 miles, 2¾ flg and 7 locks. A couple of boats had passed us by the time we got up but there was only one directly in front of us as we worked our way through Minshull Lock No 2 . By the time […]
From Ladybird Moorings to Jacksons Bridge No 7, a distance of 18 miles, flg and 23 locks. After travelling up on Thursday afternoon and eating in The Talbot we made an early start. That seems to becoming standard practice for us since we moved the boat here. We used to do the same sort of […]
Well the boat has been getting quite a bit of use recently. A trip to Wigan over the Easter holidays which got all changed round but will be blogged about as part of the testing of the new route importer code (more about that on the main blog). Then Kathy and I took it out […]